1914: Voices From The Battlefields – Matthew Richardson
This is a fine collection of personal accounts from the opening year of the First World War, a good number
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Author: John Grehan
Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe – John Buckley
The author travels on much trodden ground in discussing the events from D-Day to the end of the war. Nevertheless,
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The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen & Women 1939-45 – Stephen Bourne
During the Second World War volunteers from across the British Empire played their part in fighting Germany and its allies.
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Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War – Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor
The authors of this thought-provoking book make the extraordinary claim that a small group of rich and powerful men sought,
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Churchill’s Angels: How Britain’s Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of the Second World War – Bernard O’Connor
It is hard to quantify the effectiveness of the Special Operations Executive in the overall military effort undertaken by Britain
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Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II – Donald Nijboer
It is a truism that a picture tells a thousand words. Thus it was that during the Second World War
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In Support Of The Few: From an Erk to Chief Technician, the Diary of Joe Roddis
It was so often the case that the pilots of Fighter Command were the ones who received all the glory
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Churchill’s Secret Defence Army: Resisting the Nazi Invader – Arthur Ward
Of the many ‘what ifs’ in history, the German invasion of Britain in 1940 is one that has been replayed
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Between Silk and Cyanide: The Story of SOE’s Code War – Leo Marks
Leo Marks first wrote his book about his time during the Second World War in the Special Operations Executive, Between
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Hunting Tirpitz – G H Bennett
After each major naval or combined operation of the Second World War the Admiralty published a ‘Battle Summary’ which provided
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